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IFAD Country Offices (ICOs)
Rationale: Why ICOs?
• Enhance IFAD’s development effectiveness
• Focus on clients
• Improve efficiency
IFAD Then and Now
2003
2014
From headquarters…
…to the field
2011 2007
Decentralization strategy
Light touch
EB-approved criteria for opening country offices
• size of IFAD’s country programme
• country’s dependence on agriculture
• size of rural population
• prevalence of poverty
• existence of an enabling policy environment
• state context
Hosting arrangements for ICOs
30 Governments have entered
into Host Country Agreements
39 Service Level Agreements
with Hosting Agencies
39 ICOs already established
Support services from Agencies:
Office space; Information Technology; Privileges & Immunities;
Finance; Security; Human Resources; Administrative support
Where are ICOs in relation to IFAD’s
portfolio?
LAC
WCA
NEN
ESA
APR
10 NEW ICOs
Decentralization strategy ICO Models
• CPO-led
• Out-posted CPM
• Regional Office
Support to decentralization
Field Support Unit
• Field security and trainings
• Security compliance of IFAD travel
• General administration
• Human resources
• IT support
• Host Country Agreements
• Service Level Agreements
• Privileges and immunities
Development effectiveness and efficiencies
Projects in countries with ICOs perform better in: • Overall implementation progress
• Likelihood of achieving development objectives
IOE country evaluations show ICOs have positive impact on: • Policy dialogue and engagement
IFAD’s profile and visibility • Partnership building with country partners
Efficiency gains obtained • Proximity and proactivity: result in costs efficiencies that benefit quality and quantity
of supervision
• Business process: processing of a withdrawal application reduced from 44 to 22 days
Implementation of ICO strategy for IFAD10
• Expand and consolidate IFAD’s country presence
(50 ICOs)
• Ensure complementarity of functions, knowledge
flows and capacity between ICOs and HQ
• Improvement of quality of supervision and
implementation support
• Continue to seek efficiencies to contain overall
ICO costs
2015 Year of the ICOs
Objectives
• Consolidate our achievements
• Build a common IFAD identity
• Focus on the challenges of decentralization
2015 Year of the ICOs
2015 Year of the ICOs
2015 Year of the ICOs
2015 Year of the ICOs
2015 Year of the ICOs
2015 Year of the ICOs
Thank you
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